In total, officers allegedly found about 600 grams of drugs with an estimated street value of between $150,000 and $200,000.

An even bigger find came when police found documents in the car related to a storage unit in Braybrook in Melbourne.

Drug squad detectives from Albury notified Victoria Police. Detectives from Footscray went to the unit with a search warrant and found 200 kilograms of phosphoric acid — a prescribed precursor for making methamphetamine.

Gerges, of Coolaroo, and Le, of Maidstone, appeared before Mr Murray each charged with supplying more than a commercial quantity of drugs, supplying more than an indictable quantity of drugs, two counts of drug possession and possessing ammunition without holding a licence.

It was alleged 399 ammunition rounds of 32 calibre, 22 calibre and 9mm rounds were found in the car along with a shoulder holster for a pistol.

Officers discovered a broken crack pipe in the car along with a small foil containing methamphetamine.

Neither Gerges, who works as a barista, nor his unemployed passenger was able to tell police who owned the car.

Gerges claimed he had borrowed it from a friend’s brother for a day trip to Sydney to visit family.

A mobile phone seized from him is alleged to have contained numerous text messages which officers believe were related to supplying prohibited drugs.

Two phones belonging to Le were checked after he provided access information and they are alleged to have had similar messages.